After Elia Stelluto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). A ...

The head of India’s Catholic hierarchy has challenged pilgrims to allow the experience of the Philippines’ new ...

The Padre Pio Shrine in Batangas, Philippines, was formally elevated to an international shrine on September 23, with more than 40 bishops gathering for a Mass marking the new status and calling ...

Please read this article by Fr. MacRae. Tomorrow Bill Donohue will address what he said about the New York Times trying to discredit Padre Pio.

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) was famous during his lifetime. He wasn’t a brilliant theologian, an innovative religious founder, a martyr, a bishop, a cardinal, or a pope. He was a Capuchin ...

Padre Pio is known for his deep wisdom, his stigmata, miraculous reports of his bilocation, being physically attacked by the devil, and mastering the spiritual life.

CNA Staff, May 25, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). St. Pio of Pietrelcina — better known as Padre Pio — one of the most beloved modern saints in the Catholic Church, was born 137 years ago on May 25 in ...

The story of one of the most beloved saints of our times began on 25 May 1887 in the Italian village of Pietrelcina. Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi, Francesco Forgione, known by his religious ...

Between 700 and 1,000 children from schools and parishes in Rome will gather in the Vatican Gardens with Pope Leo to start the “One Million Children ...

Padre Pio from Pietrelcina is mainly remembered for the wounds in his hands; these stigmata made him one of the most photographed and most doubted religious figures of the twentieth century. However, ...

An Italian priest known for his deep prayer life, Padre Pio (1887-1968), was insistent that everyone should be dedicated to growing in prayer.